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EMI & Apple announcement....... rumor has it EMI will be selling most of their catalog without DMR through iTunes......
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About a week after it became apparent that Europe was going to bust Apple for consumer and monopoly issues regarding i-Tunes, Steve Jobs comes out and starts preaching DRM free music. At the press conference he was asked if this meant DRM free Pixar releases. He didn't answer the question.
At US$1.29 a "song" the price offers little or no advantage over purchasing a CD. When you think about it, this is huge gouge.What is the cost of delivery of a song via Internet versus pushing a physical CD through the distribution network, distributors, retailers? I would say conservatively 1/5 the price via Internet, or possibly much, much less. Songs should be maybe $.0.20 each.
Bill Bailey
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According to the EMI site: "Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price."Still a gouge, but CD prices have been a gouge since day one. If they offered lossless files, it would at least be in the ballpark, given the convenience of downloading.
Own any Motown from the 70's? Other than Marvin Gaye, paying $7-10 per record for albums that had 1 song and 10 pieces of filler junk now that was a ripoff. This is for the generation that does not buy or want the album, just the hits. If the bands are just hitmakers, why bother with the album? At these prices, singles are cheaper than they were in 1969 on average. I paid a $1.50 then. Joy to the World!
In my case I'm mainly a classical listener and I usually want all or most of the album, so US$1.29 is a bit stiff all things considered."All things" include:
- (as mentioned), one wants the whole album
- the format is still lossy at 256 kps
- one doesn't get the "hardware" including disc, box, and booklet
- one has to make a backup copy, computer storage being what it is.
Bill Bailey
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See my stereo config
Without the need to actually make CD hardcopies, CD jewelbox, inserts, distribution, the downloaded song should be a LOT cheaper for us consumers compared to buying a CD.The real math should be <$1 a song for LOSSLESS downloads, not $1.30 for 256kbps lossy downloads.
But hey, since when do the greedy bastards care about what consumers want.
I see your point, but $1.29 seems reasonable to me when I consider the fact that I can have the music immediately and don't have to purchase the entire album. There are very few albums released these days that I want more than 3 or 4 songs from, so overall downloading from iTunes a la carte is the better value for me.
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... but it's dismaying to read in the Apple press release that"DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording [sic]..."
The EMI press release is more ambiguous, stating:
"From today, EMI's retailers will be offered downloads of tracks and albums in the DRM-free audio format of their choice in a variety of bit rates up to CD quality."
I'm afraid that may mean nothing more than the same 256 kbps lossy tracks offered by Apple. Alas.
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I hope you meant DRM. Because that would be great. I have thus far refused to purchase any DRM encoded music on-line.
A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile and I knew if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a while but February made me shiver with every paper I delivered, bad news on the door step, I couldn't take one more step, I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride but something touched me deep inside, the day, the music, died. So...
Hey D,
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